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Guide to User Documentation for Cisco Security Manager 4.0

Published: June 18, 2010

Cisco Security Manager is part of the Cisco Security Management Suite, which delivers comprehensive policy administration and enforcement for the Cisco Self-Defending Network. The suite also includes the Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (MARS), which is available separately.

This document identifies and links to the various documents available for Cisco Security Manager (Security Manager), Auto Update Server (AUS), and Performance Monitor, and contains the following sections:

These guides contain information for planning your deployment and requirements and procedures for installing Security Manager on a Windows server or in a high availability or disaster recovery configuration. The installation guide provides installation, upgrade, and uninstallation instructions for Security Manager, AUS, and Performance Monitor and includes pre- and post-installation guidelines and troubleshooting information.

Information about specific configuration scenarios and how they are implemented using Cisco Security Manager. Although specific to a particular Security Manager release, configuration examples can be used with other releases that support a feature of interest and are available at

Tip For an interactive overview of Security Manager features, see the interactive JumpStart tutorial that opens when you start Security Manager for the first time. You can also access the JumpStart tutorial by selecting Help > JumpStart.

Use Security Manager to define many application-wide settings that customize your working environment, such as deployment method. See “Completing the Initial Security Manager Configuration” in User Guide for Cisco Security Manager 4.0
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To enable communication between Security Manager and devices, you must configure transport settings on the devices before you add them to the inventory. See the “Preparing Devices for Management” chapter in User Guide for Cisco Security Manager 4.0
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